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Re: Mecanum vs. Tank Drive?

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Originally Posted by MrForbes View Post
heh...our best regional year was 2009, with those hard plastic wheels.

Anecdotes aren't real helpful, some times.
It's funny, all the teams on Einstein that year used those wheels too.


4 out of the 6 years since mecanum wheels were commercially available (2007-2012), there was an element of the game discouraging or prohibiting use. I think 2011 was the first year there could've been wide use. 2013, for some robots, drive train didn't matter a whole lot (full court shooters). 2014, single game piece and ferocious defense, wasn't a good idea. 2015 never happened, 2016 favored 8" pneumatic wheels.

This year I'm thinking will be more favorable to mecanum wheels.
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